definitions of language

November 15, 2011

Figurative language: 4  

·      Onomatopeia: pop

·      Metaphor: you ARE my sunshine

·      Simile: quiet AS a mouth

·      Rhyme: hall, ball, tall

·      Personification: the lamp SAT on the table

·      Repetition: baby, baby, baby.

·      Hyperbole: FASTEST runner EVER

·      Alliteration: peter piper picked pickled peppers

·      Assonance: he saw a ball far away

·      Imagery: appeal to 5 senses

·      Allusion: makes reference to something in another literary work

·      Allegory: 2^nd deeper meaning (tortoise and the hare)

·      Understatement: stating the obvious in a not so obvious way

·      Paradox: war is peace. 2 opposite meanings that come together

·      Irony: gentlemen… you cant fight in the war room

·      Synecdoche: when part represents a whole (all hands on deck)

·      Apostrophe: addressing something non-human or dead as human or alive.